Innovation in Environmental Leadership

9    Climate Change Leadership

From Tragic to Comic Discourse

Benjamin W. Redekop, Morgan Thomas

Introduction

Amidst calls by the scientific community for help from social scientists (Nature Climate Change, 2014, 2015), climate change is increasingly gaining the attention of leadership scholars, who have begun to consider climate change and other environmental problems as leadership challenges that elicit specific forms, approaches, and styles of leadership in response (e.g., Gallagher, 2012; Redekop, 2010; Stober et al., 2013). It is not enough to apply well-worn leadership conceptions to environmental problems, since those conceptions emerged in the service of our current extractive and unsustainable industrial system (see the Introduction ...